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The college has no authority or credibility because of it's own numbers. Their word cannot be used in court as the public's attorney would immediately call attention to these numbers (the sum totals of their investigations). How many of the college's rare rulings (against a doctor) are …

Hi All - I was prescribed a course of Cipro and Diclofenac (NSAID - apparently not a good idea) and after day one I had to call my GP as I had anxiety, stomach problems and shaking - of course they said can't be the Cipro keep taking it. After 5 days I couldn't go on, so agreed I would stop …

Back in 2011 i presented to the hospital with suspected mild epididmitus. I was placed on these poisonous tablets too. After 90days of max dose 1000mg per day of Cipro and ibuprofen together at 800mg i was a crippled beyond belief. I went back to the doctor with Full body bruises in “ …

Feeling of constant low blood sugar, muscle weakness and malaise since heavy course of levaquin two years ago...anyone else experience this? I'm 58, fairly athletic, lifelong teacher who had an appendectomy complete with intravenous levaquin and follow up of 3 week course of levaquin. Just …

The CPSA requires a diagnosis disclosure for marijuana but not poison pills? Cipro has a black box warning (poison) because of the following: "Systemic toxicity syndrome"(toxic to all connective tissue including muscle, bone, skin, nerves, cartilage, tendon and ligaments rupture " …

One of the college's previous registrars likened the public to a "culture of blame ". Possibly this can be demonstrated numerically. Around the same time over a 10 year period the CPSA fielded 6500 complaints. 120 of these resulted in some action being taken (against the doctor, …

Hello everyone I have been busy writing to our provincial health minister every day this week with zero response. This morning I messaged our premier with " A happy day (I love Germany) then finished with the following : " the EMA decision wether to ban empirical treatment with Cipro in …

Today I realize for the first time what it is to cry tears of joy. Instead of my heart being full of hate I feel gratitude, elation,euphoria and love for the German people, scientists and their government which should be used as a model for progression in human rights and treatment of its people. …

Up until the US postal workers were treated with Cipro, empirical treatment with Cipro was an unauthorized, unacknowledged, and uncontrolled experiment on random test subjects. The results of these experiment could never be verified properly because of these missing controls. The US postal …

We are collateral damage from our governments plan for anthrax attack (Cipro. There is no other cure). How did Cipro somehow become a candidate for Empirical treatment when this directly contradicts the CPS? Why are massive doses handed out like candy even after a "black box" warning . …

30 year old healthy Male. Went to the urgent care facility from sharp pains in testicular region. Doctors said prostotitis and prescribed cipro 500mg. Instructions directed to take 2 tablets a day for 10 days. Yesterday was The first day I took it. I took my first dose at noon and my second around 1 …

Hello, I had UTI and my Doctor prescribed ciproflaxacin500mg for me... But I noticed that after taking the drug.... I started sustaining some side effects..... I am feeling very sleepy 😴 and I am unable to sleep well in the night even though I am feeling sleepy and somewhat very tired.... …

Has anyone experienced hair loss from Levaquin and this class of drugs? I had it with my earlier rounds of Levaquin & it took a few months to subside. Then had it start again a month after my last round. I had meningitis so I didn't have much choice in meds and I was allergic to the first …

I had to take Cipro for 5days because of typhoid infection. I am still having some undesirable effects. Initially i thought the infection is still there until i ran some test which came back negative. I still have brain fog like my body and mind is not connected. I am barely sleeping. I feel …

Hi My husband 5 years down the line of being floxed has got over a lot of the initial toxicity but still has problems with all the joints in his fingers and wrists . His forearms are tender in between the tendons . He has taken liquid collagen in the form of a sachet but not sure what …

I had a ureteroscopy on Feb. 7. Feb 9, dr. said I had an infection and switched my antibiotics from Macrobid to Cipro. I took Cipro for 5 1/2 days. I called the doctor on call and told him I was having nightmares, couldn't sleep, kept feeling like I was falling and my whole body would jerk …

Good morning all, Recently I was prescribed Ciprofloxacin for a kidney infection whilst I was in the UK. I'm now in Thailand and after stopping the tablets on Saturday morning (7 days, 500mg x 2 doses a day) i experienced my first real side effects on Sunday night. I had intense back pain, …

Hi all, I am very worried about this headache/pressure i've been having for the last 6 weeks, (on and off, mostly on). I started taking Ciprofloxacin & Doxycycline (in late October) after my Urologist told me I had prostatitis, he initially gave me a 14 day course of Cipro but upon going to …

So I had some issues urinating so I went to my doctor and he ended up doing a rectal exam and said that my prostate was a bit enlarged for a 24 year old, and he suspected a prostate infection. He then prescribed me cipro 500 mg x 2 for 7 days. I started taking the cipro that day itself and felt …

From a recent long term survey in pub med Our objective was to evaluate the association between fluoroquinolone use and aortic dissection or aortic aneurysm in a systematic review and meta-analysis. Evidence from a small number of studies suggests that exposure to fluoroquinolones is …

i am a73 year old female and have taken cipro for a bladder infection in past and reported to dr. That I had mild pains in joints. Now I get a bladder binfection again and he prescribed cipro again me thinking he knows best, well this time I can't walk without severe pain in legs and knees and …

I had a uti and was prescribed cipro. I took one pill and didn't take anymore after reading the side effects. It's a week later and I haven't felt right since. (I flushed out the uti naturally so it's not that). I am expericing extreme dizzyness and heart palpitation. I'm …

My doctor said I had a kidney infection so prescribed ciprofloxacin after taking first dose I felt very sick and after five doses woke with terrible pain behind left eye and over forehead, went back to docs who said its sinusitis and I have developed a terrible chesty cough, now tendonitis in right …

Hello Everybody I took Cipro on mid June and it didn’t hit me then except minor bruising on my under arm .But then after a month I started feeling pain on my legs ,then shoulders and recently(after almost 3 months) I feel pain on my small joint of wrists, hands, feet, fingers etc. I am sick worried …

I believe I have had severe reactions to Avelox and Levaquin. I have had a bad reaction to the pneumonia vaccine (arm swollen, red, throbbing). and I also got the shingles from the shingles vaccine. I have always gotten the flu vaccine but I am now hesitant to get one this year. Any …

i do smoke weed and i feel my body system is no just okay,i keep feeling chest pain ,please is there any medication i can take, cause someone prescribe CIPROFLOXACIN 500mg for,i don't know if i should process with it,please i will appreciate you urgent reply thanks..

Hello all, I was given cipro 250G twice a day for epididymitis and have never felt the same. After three days of taking it I went to A and E due to extreme dizziness and a fear of having testicular cancer. While i was there I had an ECG with was deemed unusual and was made to stay the night. They …

Symptoms started back this morning and now I am miserable and pacing. I am trying to make it thru the evening and will beg for different antibiotic tomorrow. I took a half of Valium to see if that would help. Questions: ideas to get me through the night with this incredible discomfort? AND- what …

Hi Been given 500mg ciprofloxacin for a water infection. G.p. told me to reduce domperidone whilst taking this antibiotic. After two days my heart rate is up, my neurological condition has got worse, but the worst is the utterly awful anxiety. Rang GP who told me stop them straight away. 24hrs on …

In late 2015 I went down with prostatitis, Cipro 500mg twice a day didnt work so put on 750mg twice a day. Since had leg pains in top of legs also pains in shoulders and arms. At some point put on codydromol and ibuprofen at same time as cipro to ease pain.

Hello I have had prostatitis or some sort of infection "down there" for months now, and tried all sorts of antibiotics. Amoxicillin, bactrim, doxycycline, rocephin. They all showed slight improvement at first but then the infection came back full swing. I recently went to a urologist who …

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